Learn about Japanese . Extra lecture by Kamonohashi

Hello , I give you one more lecture today.

Many my students says "I wanna come to Japan!!!"

I'm so glad as a one of Japanese.

And before you come to Japan I want you to know some things .

Today I teach you one of them.

Today's theme is Japanese money.

Please learn Japanese bills and coins .

First , learn exchange rate　\(yes) and $(dollar)

1\=0.010653 US $
1 US $ = 93.8702713 \
(searched on google in Feb 25th 2013)
(\ means yen )

There are some coins and bills in Japanese money.

Japanese Coins
・1\ coin
Design:Drawn sapling on the coin
・5\ coin
Design:drawn ear of rice, water, gear on the coin . And it means Japanese agriculture, fisheries, industry
・10\ coin
Design:drawn Byōdō-in on the coin.
(Byōdō-in ...... is a Buddhist temple in the city of Uji in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is jointly a temple of the Jōdo-shū (Pure Land) and Tendai-shū sects.)
・50\ coin
Design:drawn chrysanthemum on the coin
・100\ coin
Design : drawn cherry blossoms on the coin

Japanese bills

・1000\ bill

Surface design : Hideyo Noguchi

Back surface design : Mt. Fuji

・5000\ bill

Surface design : Ichiyou Higuchi

Back surface design : Iris laevigata paint by Ogata Kōrin

(Ogata Kōrin.....was a Japanese painter of the Rinpa school.)

・10000\ bill

Surface design : Yukichi Fukuzawa

Back surface design : Phoenix statue at Byōdō-in